I wrote up a blog entry with much great detail and pics but didn’t want to include all of that here as it would be reruns for most of the people in class.
Here’s my first iteration of the LED enclosure assignment.
And here is the second iteration, now incorporating sound.
1.What was surprising about making your project?
Instead you using multiple separate LEDS I used a single RGB LED, I assumed that the methods for fading and flashing would be almost identical to single LEDS and I was mistaken. I learned that different colors are activated and are visible in different amount and trying to arrive at a single suitable color combination proved to be interesting.I thought it would be simple to come up with switches for transitioning between “moods” but the potentiometer I used is quite finicky. Instead of moving smoothly between each mood it is hard to determine how to be in specific sections of fading,flashing A and flashing B.
Make an “Emotional Box”
Create an enclosure that diffuses and hides your LEDs (and Arduino).
Using If and Else If, create 3 different LED Animations. The 3 animations should be Keyboard controlled. The three animations should show 3 different states:
1) Waking Up, or Alert
2) Falling Asleep, or Soothing
3) Think or Random Activity
Use Sketch 6-01 from Programming Arduino along with Knighrider and Fading LED code to make your 3 animations. Recommended enclosure is a plexiglass box with paper to diffuse the light.
1) Joseph Volpe
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3) I received a BFA in film and television with a minor in visual effects from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008 and have danced between production and tv jobs ever since.
4) What is my favorite child hood toy? Well I’ve been thinking about this toy a lot recently and I don’t know why…Monster Face!
Advertising / Graphic Design
B.A. from Loyola University Chicago/Worked at Loyola University Chicago’s Communications Department/Currently working at Madison Square Garden
I’m in this class because physical computing was my weakness coming into this semester. I see the importance of this skill, especially moving into the future, and want to become better at it.
My favorite childhood toy was an large empty cardboard box that I could make into a space ship, house, sports stadium, club house etc.
From Los Angeles, CA, I have worked in PR/Marketing for theater and costume design for television and film. Im here at Parsons to study interactivity — namely (at least this week) for exhibit design.
I’m in this class as I wanted to learn more about user interactivity hardware (arduino and improve coding skills) – aside of the other studios.
My favorite childhood toy was the ViewMaster. To this day I still incorporate its look and operations into my websites and work.
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Susan Lin
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Making Toys 
naterudolph 11:20 pm on February 16, 2012 Permalink |
I was out of town til Wednesday this week, so when I found out we had an assignment for Thursday’s class my main concern was just getting something presentable. I was surprised at how quickly I was able to get a working prototype with some cardboard and the wire wrap tool. Thankfully everything was laid out neatly with the header pins so I was able to test the code and ensure there weren’t any short circuits.
The code was actually the portion that took longer than I assumed it might. Making the whole series of LEDs do something was simple enough with a for loop, but trying to do any sort of pattern proved a little more counter intuitive. Using the fade code from Monday’s class I was able to add some variety to that simple sequence of LEDs turning on into something different for the “waking up” function of the box.